Corporation Tax Act, 1976
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Dividends and other distributions at gross rate or of gross amount.
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178.—(1) Where any right or obligation created before the 6th day of April, 1976, is expressed by reference to a dividend at a gross rate or of a gross amount, that right or obligation shall, in relation to a dividend payable on or after that date, take effect as if the reference were to a dividend of an amount determined by the formula
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where—
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A is the standard rate per cent. for the year 1976-77, and
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D is an amount equal to a dividend at that gross rate or of that gross amount.
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(2) Subsection (1) shall apply with the necessary modifications to a dividend partly at a gross rate or of a gross amount and shall apply to any distribution other than a dividend as it applies to a dividend.
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